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Virgil Solis (1514-1562)

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Georg Pencz, Virgil Solis - Winter / Description: Plate from Triumphal Processions of the Four Seasons (Hollstein 375-378) engraved by Virgil Solis. o'Dell has identified the carriages with the figures as after Pencz's designs for glass paintings in Erlangen. Saturn, Hiems and Janus seated on a wooden cart drawn by an ass on which Ocium is sitting; Aelos walking ahead of the cart at right; Senectus as an old woman and Gout as an old man at left (H.376). / Dimensions: 5,30 x 24,30 cm each / Condition: Good impression on a dense laid paper. Visible plate border and mainly tread margins. Nice condition and original period impression. / Literature: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (376) --- O'Dell-Franke 1977 / Kupferstiche und Radierungen aus der Werkstatt des Virgil Solis (e.9) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (IX.262.136) / Medium: Pair of Engravings /Circa: 1530-1562 200